Is Failure A Decision?

I feel that as children are growing up depending on how they were raised by their parents, has a lot to do with if failing is acceptable to them. Siblings and family background has a huge impact on an adolescent because if their family is extremely serious when it comes to failing at anything, chances are they are not raised that failing is acceptable. Personally to me I feel that failing is important to your achievement to grow. Furthering your knowledge in many cases can be hard and at times you do fail but that is not a bad thing at all, you should practice on what can be improved for next time and learn from your experiences. Somehow kids are taught that the best way is to win, win, win! But in reality life is not always easy, so being able to cope with failure is necessary. Even if you do try your best at something unfortunately you can still fail at it. In sports I think that individuals should not want to fail but strive to win however to loose and beat them-selves over it I do disagree with. In general I feel that school should be a place where failing is acceptable because no matter how good you are at a subject you will most likely fail at it a quiz or test at least once. I don’t know who came up with this metaphor but I have heard “Failure is not a option.” I believe that failure can be an option if you really are not applying yourself to the best of your ability. For example, someone can be lazy and want a positive outcome but in college and in life it does not work that way. You really need to apply a great amount of time on each subject weather you like it or not. The whole point is you can be successful in school/college even if you do fail on a quiz or test you would then try even harder the time not to fail. Just because you fail at one subject also doesn’t mean that you are a failure. In the case of them applying themselves to the subject, and still failing may just be that the subject learned is not for the individual in general. Many (Not all people) apply motivation to a course they are in and may never understand the topic that well for different scenarios however they may love the topic and just not how the professor communicates it or grades. In society I feel it is hard for people to look at failing acceptable but I feel the only way that you achieve better results for yourself would be by improvement, so if you don’t do too well on one thing, don’t think it’s the end of the word. Just find where you lacked and how you can improve yourself for the next time! The greatest thing to do is have the courage to further excel and not give up on the challenge that you are facing. One of the quotes that I liked from this week’s reading was outliners – “The amount of practice necessary for exceptional performance is so extensive that people on top need help.” I really loved this quote because someone can’t be perfect at everything, everyone has their own flaws and it’s just to say that every now and then failing is necessary for self-improvement.